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NITI Aayog's report 'Reimagining Skilling for Viksit Bharat@2047' estimates that 8.7 crore Indians aged 15 to 29 are neither in education, employment nor training - the NEET group.
That is about 11 per cent of the 15-29 age group; roughly 88 per cent of NEET youth are engaged in domestic work and caregiving.
The report finds that only 8.25 per cent of graduates work in roles that match their qualifications, pointing to a weak link between formal education and employability.
It recommends universal General Employability and Entrepreneurship Skills from Class 6 to Class 12 and structured vocational 'Kaushal Tracks' from Class 9, noting that fewer than one in 12 secondary schools currently offer vocational subjects.
Other recommendations include making apprenticeships a primary route to employment, a unified digital tracking system for learner records, industry-aligned specialisations in higher education, and skills-first hiring in place of degree filters.
NEET is an internationally used statistical category for young people who are simultaneously outside the education system, outside the labour force or unemployed, and outside any training or apprenticeship. It is broader than the unemployment rate, because the unemployment rate counts only those actively seeking work, whereas NEET also captures those who have withdrawn from both study and job search - a group dominated in India by young women doing unpaid domestic and care work. The distinction matters for policy: an unemployed graduate needs job matching, while a young woman outside the labour force because of care responsibilities needs childcare support, flexible hours and safe transport before any skilling course becomes usable. That is why the report segments learners and workers into five groups - those in schooling, those in tertiary education, those in formal and informal work, NEET youth, and women - and prescribes different interventions for each.
Simple Analogy: Unemployment counts the people standing in the queue for a job; NEET also counts the people who never reached the queue.
Provides for integration of vocational education from Class 6, which the report says has not translated into school-level delivery
The existing skilling architecture under the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, whose focus on training numbers the report asks to replace with employment outcomes
The statutory basis for apprenticeship training that the report wants used as a mainstream route into work
The economic argument for urgency - the window closes as the working-age share of the population peaks
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Which one of the following best describes the main objective of 'Seed Village Concept?
Answer: Involving the farmers for training in quality seed production and thereby to make available quality seeds to others at appropriate time and affordable cost
Young people not in education, employment or training - a category broader than the unemployed, since it includes those outside the labour force altogether
Structured vocational pathways proposed from Class 9, offering deeper specialisation aligned to local and national demand
The report's term for money already spent on schooling or a degree by a young person who now has no income, which makes paid skilling unaffordable